On 8/2/2011 12:59 AM, PStamler wrote:
Nice review, Mike!
At one point, you remarked about the odd taper of the gain control,
noting that you'd seen the same on other project-studio gear, and you
speculated that they all got their pots from the same place.
I think you're right, and I think they're using linear pots where they
should be using reverse-log.
They're very much like Mackie and Behringer. Back when I had
friends at Behringer (ex-Mackie) and I got one of their
small mixers for a review, I commented to him about the
barely usable taper on the gain pots. He told me that they
had made a production change, were using different pots, and
he sent me a different mixer with the new pots. It was a
little better, more like (or maybe exactly like) a Mackie. I
once plotted gain vs. rotation on a Mackie Onyx.
Focusrite's response to my comment about the gain pots was
that it was to give better control at lower gain settinds
(like, yeah, just where you need it).
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